Really? They want to save tens of billions? Then start having the FDA apply
drug development guidelines to devices. When a company wants to sell a
$15000 machine or stimulator or hardware for surgery, prove that it works better
than what's out there or prove the new claim. That will shut down all the docs
getting kickbacks from the companies and from doing unnecessary procedures..

Beverly Richards-Smith, PhD

08/12/14

Eliminate for-profit
health insurance and
health care
provision
(hospitals, clinics,
etc.). Put
government limits on
the prices of
pharmaceuticals and
medical devices, as
there are in every
other country on the
planet. These two
actions will save
more money than all
the experiments
combined..

Jennifer Trybom

08/12/14

Agreed. The greed in the medical industry is as obscene as the
banking/derivatives/stock market. By allowing their types into medicine, where
their hearts are green, everyone has suffered.
There is a way to deliver medical services to Our Country's people, the only
question is there a will to do so. Everyone's health is tied to everyone, we are all
connected and affected by one another..

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